patching...
Update: Georgetown and Glover Park: Get local news delivered to your inbox. Sign up for our newsletter! »
Welcome back, Patch Blogger!

37th Street Traffic

Friday, March 15, 2013

Construction, Detours to Impact 37th Street Travelers

Construction the on 37th Street and Tunlaw Road intersection with force northbound travelers to detour later this month.

Construction on the 37th Street and Tunlaw Road intersection is expected to begin before March 28, according to the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) at the Advisory Neighbor Commission (ANC) public meeting Thursday. According to Paul Hoffman the DDOT program manager for the construction, the contractor will be given notice to proceed sometime this week with construction lasting an estimated four weeks, two of which will include a detour for northbound 37th Street drivers and buses with access for residents. Exact dates are not available, but warning will be provided a week prior to the start of construction and the start of the detour. “Nobody is happy about the detour,” ANC Chair of Commission Brian Cohen told Patch. “But it …

Monday, January 7, 2013

Georgetown ANC Withholds Judgment on Glover Park Streetscape

Neighbors in Georgetown and Burleith have started raising concerns about increased traffic.

Georgetown's Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners (ANC) are "collecting anecdotal evidence" about the impact of the Glover Park Streetscape project on traffic on Georgetown and Burleith streets. At the ANC meeting Wednesday, Commissioner Ron Lewis said they have received a "significant" number of complaints about increased traffic on 37th Street in Burleith and 35th Street near Hardy Middle School. "It has been hard to figure out what is due to construction and what is due to the configuration," Lewis said. The Glover Park Streetscape project broke ground in April and was "substantially complete" in mid-December. The project reduced the number of lanes for traffic from three to two during peak hours and from two to one during non-peak hours…

GNR B

11:35 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Rodney-you don't get what the anger is about? Because you don't need to use Wisconsin to get to work. Those of us that live in Georgetown and work in points north, like Tenleytown and Friendship Heights have no choice but to try to get through here and people that live in Bethesda to work in Georgetown will start to look for work elsewhere if their commute is lengthen. If businesses keep losing …   more ›

Got a Hot Tip?